'Task team costs R435m since 2018'

Since 2018, the police had spent R435 million on the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT), says South African Police Service (Saps) chief financial officer Lieutenant-General Puleng Dimpane.

- Vhahangwele Nemakonde

Dimpane appeared before parliament's ad hoc committee yesterday, which has now moved from Cape Town to the Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Centre in Pretoria.

Dimpane oversees the entire Saps budget.

She said that Saps has 11 active task teams. Overtime, travel, subsistence, air and road travel are the biggest expenditures.

"When the operational environment agrees or picks up crime patterns in any area in the country, they sit and discuss and analyse and come to the conclusion that they need to go and stabilise that situation.

"Sometimes they will use the local guys, sometimes they will deploy from all over the country based on the decisions," she said.